L. A. Pai Art Jewellery Gallery

05/08/2026

This second video shows Lydia making her new House ornaments that use paper tabs instead of tape or glue. These paper ornament patterns are original hand-printed linocut artworks in blue or red ink options on white card paper. Assembled, the ornament measures 1.5" x 1.5" x 3" (4 x 4 x 8 cm).
Enjoy! Thank you !

05/08/2026

has done such a marvelous job with these diy ornament videos that I'll post both. What a treat to be invited to participate in the artist's creative project in this way.

Each strip of the paper bears Lydia's original hand-printed linocut artwork. The assembled ornament measures approximately 2.5" in diameter, and the kit contains a beautiful little illustrated step-by-step instruction booklet.

Visit lapaigallery.com to see the stretching cat and golden fish on blue and purple. Or visit us at 497 Sussex Drive to see the charming new animal cards -- dog and calf nose to nose, racoon on top of racoon, cat asleep on the gifts under the tree, love birds....

05/06/2026

Is a lovelier Mother's Day tribute to a mother possible than here with Cardinal Family? No. But there can also be uniquely lovely Mother's Day gifts that celebrate a matriarch's solitary enjoyment of life and nature. In each of Stephanie Hill's new mixed technique paintings, Diver, Wood Duck Floating and Merganser and Trout, the woman, overtaken by nature, is becoming bird. How much of our contentment, our ability to be happy, derives from having observed our mother's engagement? Her disengagement? Realizing a mother and a sovereign individual at once -- is much like witnessing a bird woman. The artist marks these delicately metamorphic moments with fine iridescent paint details. Thank you !

Cardinal Family, 12” x 12”, oil on wood panel, 2025.
Works on paper, 8.5” x 6.5” each, ink, watercolour, and gouache on cotton rag paper, 1/1, framed, 2026.
*images are cropped; visit lapaigallery.com for full images and more works by the artist, and 497 Sussex Drive for the full experience.

04/04/2026

LISA CRESKEY works equally in two and three dimensions to create utterly unique ceramic vessels. The four large porcelain bowls we've received have fine walls that are addressed on both sides to produce multiple different perspectives--much as if you were sighting these birds and bears and beavers in the woods.

The alert Blue Jays crest the edges of the bowl and give a remarkable impression of fullness despite being quite 2-d, whereas the fully-realized Bear and Cub pick their way along the inner wall, and the Beaver is busy at work in the lowlands of its vessel. The Pine Grosbeaks offer a special approach. Perched on unglazed flat-painted branches, the charmingly plump bird bodies actually create finger-holds in the exterior wall that take one into the interior scene. These little ceramic caves allow the holder to be present in a truly remarkable physical way.

Note also, these one of a kind artworks are food-safe, allowing one to mindfully join the woodland sketches in yet another way. Thank you !

04/02/2026

03/27/2026

In hand: the final series of multi-coloured hand-beaded necklaces by Yael Krakowski. Yael has retired from her jewellery practice so these treasures are the last. We have enjoyed representing this internationally-renowned artist since 2007.

Each tiny bead is hand-knotted onto the larger bead with attention to colour contrast. Matte and glittery beads are both grounded by the visible fibre knots. There is one long necklace in pinks and reds, one in orange, and a couple of different lengths with multi-coloured beads. All are a delicate gauge of 1.5 cm but one beauty in deep autumnal colours is more impressive with 2.5 cm beads.

For the bracelet in image 2, Yael has enamelled a multitude of little silver petals in shades of red and orange. Each petal is sewn at one tip and so moves freely, keeping its place through overlapping layering. There is a breathtaking, playful, feel when rolling it over your hand.

03/24/2026

PAULA MURRAY'S vessel, Skin Deep, radiates contained energy to the degree that it feels physically impactful. The fine surface lines on the vessel's exterior skin profoundly contrast the rifts of the interior's cracks. Taking in both skins at once is a challenge, and the small puncture points between add to the physical impact and its challenge. It is proof that we do not think without our bodies.

"Exploring my interest in our connection to the unknown, I have made the walls permeable, enabling the flow of light and energy to pass more easily."


Skin Deep, multi-fired porcelain vessel, 13 x 13 x 12.5".

03/21/2026

Charm galore for the young at heart of any age. These delightful flameworked glass earrings, pendants...and bookmarks!....are hand-sculpted over a hot flame. 0 is a special glass artist who has studied separately glass art () and metalsmithing (at ).

03/18/2026

Rarities! A spring welcome from Lisa Creskey in the form of two precious small-scale vessels. Only two!

The painterly detail lavishes on the multi-fired surfaces makes them accomplished 2d paintings that offer a temporal unfolding as one turns the objects in discovery. In the hand the swells and hollows add a 3d logic to the painted figures. Textural trails add another layer of information that is specific to clay. And then we arrive at the portrait subjects! Visit us at 497 Sussex to engage in person.

03/17/2026

Flow it is for Brooklyn Soucie, in terms of the line of her rings but also in the fulsome shape of a fish that is designed to move through the water.
Her double finger Flow ring in 14k gold filled with blue sapphires, size 6.5, and her Spiral Flow rings are in 14k with natural garnets or silver with peridot (each size 7.5).
The salmon pendant and ear studs are full-bodied but light enough for comfort.

03/12/2026

AMASS XIV by Paula Murray

Speaking of the scroll-like nature of the individual elements of Amass XIV, shares:
Sacred writings have been inscribed on scrolls over millennia. Written on a single sheet, there is no division, inferring an ongoing flow of guidance. Every porcelain scroll I make writes its own story, with its own language mysteriously appearing. Deciphering these lines, and interpreting the language of metaphor in spiritual texts to bring greater understanding to an evolving world draws me in. Paula Murray

Crisscrossing layers of meaning, it recalls for me lyrics of the great Canadian songwriter, Ferron, in Our Purpose Here: "It's a woman's dream this autonomy, Where the lines connect, And the points stay free ."